The Best TV Shows on NPO 1

Every NPO 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, NPO 1 has aired more than 20 shows between 1956 and 2024. Icons of NPO 1, Eurovision Song Contest and The Daily Fable made their debut in 1956 and 1968, setting industry standards. Discover the best of NPO 1 with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for October 2026.

  • Woeste Grond
    Woeste Grond (2024)9.5

  • Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten
    Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten (2005)9.0

  • The Daily Fable
    The Daily Fable (1968)8.0

    Fabeltjeskrant [ 'faːbəɫcəskrɑnt] is a Dutch children's television series featuring puppetry and stop motion. Created in 1968 by Leen Valkenier and produced by Thijs Chanowski and Loek de Levita, it ended in 1989 and was broadcast on the Dutch channels NOS, RTL 4 and RTL 8 and on Belgian channel VRT. From 1973 to 1975 it was broadcast also in the United Kingdom, on ITV, with the title The Daily Fable.

  • Wie is de Mol?
    Wie is de Mol? (1999)7.9

    Ten candidates have to complete assignments to earn money. However, one of the group members is the Mole. The Mole's goal is to make the assignments fail and keep the amount of money earned as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the Mole is and need to unmask them. At the end of every episode, the candidates take a multiple-choice test about the mole's identity. The person who gives the least amount of correct answers is "executed" and must leave. This process continues until only two contestants and the Mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and they get all of the money earned in previous stages of the game.

  • Toen was geluk heel gewoon
    Toen was geluk heel gewoon (1994)7.8

    On January 2, 1994 the Dutch KRO television started an comic TV-show, based on the American sitcom 'The Honeymooners'. The scripts of these series were translated and edited by Gerard Cox and Sjoerd Pleijsier, two of the main actors. From the start of the fourth season they started to write their own episodes. The series are taking place in the south of Rotterdam, late fifties. The last season of the series took place in 1976.

  • Penoza
    Penoza (2010)7.8

    Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.4

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • Oogappels
    Oogappels (2019)7.4

    Four different families in a medium-sized Dutch city are followed. Their children attend the same high school. The parents all have their own way of raising children. But for all of them it is true that they set the bar very high for themselves and their little ones: life must be perfect above all!

  • Flikken Rotterdam
    Flikken Rotterdam (2016)7.3

    Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

  • Dit Was Het Nieuws
    Dit Was Het Nieuws (1996)7.2

    Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

  • De Reünie
    De Reünie (2005)7.0

  • Flikken Maastricht
    Flikken Maastricht (2007)7.0

    Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

  • MoleTalk
    MoleTalk (2016)7.0

    Immediately after The Mole you can watch MolTalk, live from VondelCS in Amsterdam. In these commentary's, Marlijn Weerdenburg and Splinter Chabot discuss hints, tasks and theory's with former candidates and other guests.

  • Oppassen!!!
    Oppassen!!! (1991)6.8

    Sitcom about two grandfathers taking care of their grandchildren, so their children can focus on their careers.

  • Van der Valk
    Van der Valk (2020)6.5

    Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.

  • De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach
    De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (2022)6.3

    Arjen Lubach dives through the issues of the day past inspiring guests to the bottom of the news. Everyone always wants to go from the issues of the day to deepening. Arjen is really looking forward to the issues of the day.

  • Hunted
    Hunted (2016)4.8

    Can you just disappear? In this thrilling program, six duos take on the challenge of staying out of the hands of the hunters for three weeks. It is up to the hunters to catch these fugitives, who are doing their utmost to remain undetectable. Along the way, the duos receive clues that lead them to an extraction point. That is the only way to escape the hunters. What is the best tactic for this mission? After all, if you can't trust anyone, where else can you go?

  • De Avondetappe
    De Avondetappe (2005)1.0

    De Avondetappe is a daily television program during the Tour de France that discusses the stage of that day. From 2003 to 2014, the presentation was in the hands of Mart Smeets. In 2015, the program was replaced by NOS Studio Tour, but since 2016 De Avondetappe has returned to the screen, now with presenters Dione de Graaff and Herman van der Zandt.

  • NOS Studio Voetbal
    NOS Studio Voetbal (2002)0.5

  • Onze boerderij
    Onze boerderij (2018)N/A

    Yvon Jaspers dives into farm life. She again visits old Farmer seeks Woman participants and other farmers to experience what it really is like to run an agricultural company in these turbulent times. What are the dilemmas of the modern farmer? What risks do you take as a farmer and when do you do it right? Are they living their dream or is it more like a nightmare?